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A schedule of race-weekend events that combines legendary U.S. road courses with North America's top country-club circuits will highlight the 2012 Cayman Interseries race schedule, which was announced on Friday by officials from series owners and founders Napleton Porsche of Westmont.

Celebrating its third full season of competition in 2012, the Cayman Interseries will make return visits to such iconic tracks as Daytona International Speedway, Road America, Sebring International Raceway and Road Atlanta, in addition to debuting at Palm Beach International Raceway, Virginia International Raceway and the new Monticello Motor Club in Monticello, N.Y.

The majority of the eight event weekends will feature dual sprint races and featured enduro events that, in most cases, will range in length from 90 minutes to two hours, possibly longer. Season champions will be crowned for the third-consecutive year in both the sprint and enduro divisions.

The Cayman Interseries also has been invited to participate in Road America's annual Hawk with Brian Redman event, a popular mid-July race that has become an annual tradition at the Elkhart Lake circuit. If added to the schedule, the Hawk likely will be a nonpoints, summer showcase “fun” race that would fit in well with the event's tradition of blending art on wheels and great competition.

“As we did prior to the 2011 season, we asked our Cayman Interseries competitors what they would like to see as far as race events this season,” said Ron Barnaba, Napleton Porsche general manager and Cayman Interseries founder. “They once again made it perfectly clear they want a solid schedule of race events on legendary and famous U.S. road courses. We were able to achieve this again for 2012 only through the great cooperation of Ken Fengler and HSR [Historic Sportscar Racing], and Carl Jensen, who has made the Cayman Interseries more than welcome at the growing schedule of race-weekend events he has organized in recent years.”

Specific schedule highlights include a night enduro at the season-opening event at Palm Beach, Feb. 16-19, the July debut at the impressive Monticello facility in the greater metropolitan New York area, and a pair of races at Road Atlanta, the only venue with two events on the 2012 calendar. The first Road Atlanta race will be the 36th-annual Mitty in late April that will feature dual sprints and a one-hour enduro during the busy and popular weekend.

The Cayman Interseries is open only to 2009 to 2012 Porsche Cayman S models that are raced in near-stock configuration by a competitive group of emerging and established drivers who typically own the cars they race.

A connection to Porsche's rich racing heritage is made through each Cayman's livery. Each Cayman's throwback color scheme also is matched with a corresponding Cayman chassis number, which means the history of some of the most memorable Porsche race cars will symbolically continue with an all-new chapter in the Cayman Interseries. Napleton Porsche is the exclusive supplier and preparation shop for the Porsche Cayman S race cars used in the series.

After running an introductory schedule of proving races in 2009, the first official Cayman Interseries racing seasons were run the last two years. Lee Davis won both the sprint and enduro championships in 2011 after also taking the enduro division honors in 2010 in his No. 33 Cayman S with the familiar red and black colors of the famous Advan Porsche 962s and Luna-C Clothing.